I think what you’re doing is completely awesome. I can say that I do care, and panhandlers definitely don’t scare me. Portland has a kind of alarming rate of homelessness for a city this size and I always find myself wishing that I could do more than what I’m able to most of the time. If people only stopped to listen to some of their stories, genuinely, and to hear what some of the people have gone through… it would change a lot of people’s minds, I think. Or it wouldn’t for certain individuals, since I know a lot won’t ever see it from a perspective other than “lazy bum!”, but I hope that mindset completely disappears with the younger generations.